In January 1999, Simon Tatham ( simon tatham ) released the first public release of the Putty SSH-client, posting the project website on its home page www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ ~sgtatham/putty/ . In October 1999, the Putty.org domain was registered with an unknown reseller, after which Denis Bider, co -founder of Bitvise, bought it in 2008. After purchase on the Putty.org website, about SSH PUTTY SSH and reference to the loading page, reference to the loading page, leading to the main website of the project. Along the way, references to the PROPRARATE SSH server and SSH client from Bitvise.
were posted on the page.
In 2016, after the comments that the site gives the impression of Bitvise’s involvement in Putty development, the page was Added Note, note, note, note, note. that the mentioned Bitvise products are in no way connected with Putty and should not be perceived as recommended by the Putty project. In 2018, the FAQ page appeared on the site, which was said that Bitvise is not related to Putty, but develops its SSH server compatible with
Putty. FAQ also mentioned that many Bitvise customers use Putty and are forced to look for a project loading page, so the company redeemed the domain and created a separate site.
Over time, Putty.org began to be perceived by some users as the main entrance point for loading PUTTY, and when searching for Google, Yandex, Duckduckgo and Bing by the key word “PUTTY” domain PUTTY.ORG is shown higher than the official page of the project www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty. Putty.org website is also often mentioned in discussions and recommendations related to Putty.
On July 13, one of their bloggers published a note with the use of a Putty.org domain for advertising BITVISE products and a call to return the domain to the PUTTY developer. It is alleged that Bitvise is misleading users, benefits from the confusion and abuses the confidence in the open software for advertising its own SSH client, competing with Putty.
Denis Bider from Bitvise, who owns the Putty.org domain and was in no way related to Putty development, replied that the Putty project did not initially own the domain and talk about the return of the domain, which Putty had never had, is baseless and misleading others. According to Denis, having bought the domain and using it for redirecting to the main load page, he acted without selfish motives, and placed the links to his own to compensate for his costs.